What life is like in the snowiest city in the world, where snow tunnels can reach 26 feet high and tourists come to see lanterns and ‘monsters’ made out of snow

The snowiest city in the world, with an average of 26 feet — or eight meters — of snowfall every year, is Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
For comparison, the average snowfall in Sapporo, Japan, — which comes in at number two on the list of snowiest cities — is 16 feet, or almost 5 meters. That’s a 10-foot difference!
During the winter you may find yourself driving alongside a wall of snow that’s several feet high.
Locals celebrate the snow with winter festivals at castles and parades down the city streets.

Aomori City, Japan, is the snowiest city in the world, according to AccuWeather.

The coastal city located in the northern Japan prefecture, Aomori, — a prefecture in Japan is equivalent to a county in the US — sits between the Hakkōda Mountains and the edge of Mutsu Bay — which means it gets a ton of snow during the winter.

The winter months in Aomori prefecture can mean delays and stoppages in public transportation and roads filled with abandoned cars, among other things.

But the city and the surrounding area also find ways to celebrate the snow.

There are a number of festivals and beautiful snowy sights to see throughout the season.

From train delays to annual walks in the snow, here’s a look at what life is like in the snowiest city in the world.

Construction on a seaport-turned-city began during early Edo period Japan, and was named Aomori City in 1624.

Source: Aomori Sightseeing Guide

The city is now home to more than 279,000 people and is annually buried in the heaviest snowfall worldwide, according to AccuWeather.

What life is like in the snowiest city in the world, where snow tunnels can reach 26 feet high and tourists come to see lanterns and ‘monsters’ made out of snow

Related Posts - Usa news

Provo Canyon closed after avalanche spills 30 feet of snow on highway PROVO — Provo Canyon was closed after an avalanche spilled up to 30 feet of snow on the road Thursday evening, troopers said. We've had an avalanche at MM 12 on SR-189 in Provo Cyn. The canyon is currently closed. Reports are that it is 10'-15' deep in some spots on the roadway. It is covering all the lanes. No persons or vehicles were caught in the avalanche. Cleanup will take hours.— Utah Highway Patrol (@UTHighwayPatrol) January 18, 2019 The Utah Highway Patrol said snow is covering all lanes of U.S. 189 in the area of the avalanche and cleanup…

376 migrants, including 179 kids, used 7 tunnels to get under the US border fence in Arizona Hundreds of migrants used tunnels to get under the border fence in Arizona earlier this week, ABC News reported. Video footage the outlet obtained shows the reported 376 migrants, including 179 children, walking alongside the US-Mexico border barrier near Yuma, Arizona. The footage comes amid a government shutdown over President Donald Trump's demands for $5.7 billion in border wall funding, which Democrats have refused to authorize. Trump's opponents have argued that a border wall is ineffective in stopping illegal border crossings — in part, because of the tunnels. Nearly 400 migrants crawled through seven tunnels under the border fence in…

Elon Musk says he talked to CERN about building tunnels for its biggest ever particle collider Elon Musk said on Twitter that the director of research lab CERN, Fabiola Gianotti, asked him about collaborating on a new particle collider. The new particle collider is slated to be four times the size of the Large Hadron Collider. Musk said she asked him whether The Boring Company could build tunnels for proposed new collider. A CERN spokesman confirmed that Gianotti met Musk in July last year. The project is not yet set in stone, and a spokesman said that a decision would need to be taken "in the next few years." Scientists have an ambitious new plan to…

Greetings from sunny North Korea: Kim Jong Un set to unveil giant seaside resort in bid to attract tourists North Korea has almost completed turning the port of Wonsan into the giant tourist resort its dictator Kim Jong Un has demanded, with miles of hotels, arcades, theatres, funfairs and a marina along the seafront. U.S. satellite images have revealed a rapid pace of development since 2017, when Kim registered his “disappointment” at the slow rate of progress. North Korean girls in similar bathing suits stand under a shower at the Songdowon International Children's Camp, Tuesday, July 29, 2014, in Wonsan, North Korea. Kim spent his childhood summers in Wonsan and has a fortified compound in the bay. He reportedly…